Improvement in adjustable stove-trucks



W. H. TUCKER, R. s. DORSEY, & L. W. FREDERICK.

Adjustable Stove-Trucks.-

No. 223,017. Patented Dec. 30,1879.

WITNESSES:

TO-LITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D O.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. TUCKER, ROBERT S. DORSEY, AND LEVI W. FREDERICK, OFINDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA; SAID FREDERICK ASSIGNOR TO SAID TUCKER ANDDORSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE STOVE-TRUCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,017, dated December30, 1879 application filed June 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. TUCKER, ROBERT S. DORSEY, and LEVI W.FRED- ERICK, of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AdiustableStove-Trucks, of which the following is a specification, reference beingbad to the accompanying drawings, which" are made a part hereof, and onwhich similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

Figure 1 is a top or plan view of our improved truck: Fig. 2 is a sideelevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of one of the corners,looking toward the nearest bar 0 from the dotted line as w in Fig. 1.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the corner-pieces ofour improved truck, which rest upon suitable casters B; C, bars,constructed, preferably, of flat iron rods, which form the beams of thetruck; and D, devices by which the beams are secured together, and whichare of such a form as to render the truck extensible.

The object of our invention is to produce a durable and convenientadjustable truck of simple and cheap construction, upon which stoves andother articles may be mounted and handled, the principal use for whichit is intended being the handling and displaying thereon bystove-dealers of their wares.

To accomplish our object we take four cornerpieces, A, made speciallyfor this use, and attach thereto metal bars, usually simply pieces ofordinary flat bar-iron of about the size three-sixteenths by one andone-half inch, and usually so bent that the two arms formed therebyshall extend in directions at right angles with each other, as shown inFig. 1. The several pairs of arms are then connected by suitable clampsor fastenin gs D, as shown, and after mounting the device so formed oncasters the truck is complete and ready for use.

We have devised some advantageous details of construction, which we willnow proceed to describe.

Upon the corner-pieces A, at the proper point, are cast flanges a, uponwhich the bars C rest. The bars being otherwise only connected to thecorner-pieces by the rivets c o, the flanges receive the weight when theload is mounted upon the top of the beams, as it often is, especially inmoving stoves before the legs are inserted, or ranges which have nolegs. The bars C are so attached to the corner-pieces as to project farenough above them to form flanges or sockets to receive the stove-feet,(when, as is usually the case, the stoves. are put in complete orderwith the feet attached before being put on the truck,) as well as tofill their principal oifice of truckbeams.

The height of the corner-pieces A (which also form the legs of thetruck) may be easily increased, if desired, in one way by insertingblocks between them and the top plates of the casters.

If it is desired, the top plate of the caster can be cast as a part ofthe corner-piece, in which case a machine-screw could advantageouslytake the place of the bolt which fastens the corner-piece and castertogether.

Many forms of device for holding the beams of the truck together mightbe employed instead of the clamp D, one of which consists in slottingthe beams and using two bolts; another in a different form of clamphaving a vertical instead of a horizontal screw; still another in aclamp with an eccentrically-formed button as a fastener, &c. We do nottherefore desire to confine ourselves to the form shown, or to any otherparticular form, but expect to use any fastening which will answer ourpurpose.

As sometimes stoves are made with three legs, we do not desireto'coufine ourselves to a square truck, but may instead apply the sameconstruction to a triangular truck, or even to a hexagonal or octagonalone, should it he wanted, though we are aware that such constructionswould be less desirable for most purposes than the square form, andtherefore do not anticipate having to make them on many occasions.

The beams of this truck, being level upon their tops, admit of the truckbeing covered with boards for the purpose of carrying articles whichcannot conveniently be laid upon the 2 2Q3.0ll7

truck in its ordinary form, and in this respect it has a markedadvantage over ordinary adjustable trucks, the beams of which are unevenand unfit for this use.

In case it is desired to extend the truck to an extremely large size, anadditional piece can be inserted in each of the beams, or in any two ofthem, by using an additional clamp for each piece.

Having thus fully described our said invention, what we claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of several similar parts, forming an adjustabletruck, each of said parts being composed of a corner-piece, A, and abar, (3, and in which said bar extends partially aroun d saidcorner-piece and is fastened thereto, and the projecting ends form twoarms, which, bein g suitably connected to the arms of other of theparts, constitute portions of two of the beams of the truck,substantially as specified.

2. In an adjustable truck, a flat metal bar, 0, forming at the same timea portion of two truck-beams, and a flange to contain the foot of thestove or other article to be mounted thereon, substantially asspecified.

3. In the corner-piece A to an adjustable truck, the flange a. as asupport to the beams O, substantially as specified.

4. The combination of the corner-pieces A, beams (J, composed of flatstraight bars, and clamps I), the whole resting upon and supported bycasters, and forming an adjustable truck, substantially as specified.

5. An adjustable truck the beams of which are composed exclusively offlat metal bars set vertically edgewise and fastened to cornerpieces,substantially as shown and specified.

In witness whereof" we have hereunto set our hands and seals atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 17th day of June, A. D. 1879.

WILLIAM H. TUCKER. IL. s.] ROBERT S. DORSEY. [1,. s.] LEVI W. FREDERICK.[L. s}

In presence of O. BRADFORD, E. A. VANCE.

